the sacrifice of climate change
Even the homeless in America use twice the amount of energy than the global average, according to a new study (PDF) from MIT.
Think about that: you could sleep on the streets, or become a Buddhist monk, and still not be able to reduce your carbon footprint to a level deemed necessary by climate change activists. And as the study points out, reducing energy usage to at or below the global average "is not obtainable for the average American on a voluntary basis". I probably don't have to spell out the policy implications here.
And if we are to meet the target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80% from 1990 levels by 2050, as both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have endorsed, the U. S. cannot emit more than 1 billion metric tons of CO2 annually. Which the country last did in 1910, when it had less than one-third of its current population and per-capita income (adjusted for inflation) was around $6,000.
A small sacrifice. It may be important to think about the implications of climate change, but it's just as important to think about the human cost—which politicians rarely consider.
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